So far my list includes Comcast, EA, and Nestle. Tell me yours, and I’ll help out.

  • @[email protected]
    29•2 years ago
    • Facebook
    • Apple
    • All of the defence contractors
    • Every telecom I’ve ever used apart from EE and Giffgaff
    • YouTube
    • Any website that tries to circumvent privacy rules with fuckery
    • Governments like the UK that insist prohition is a better alternative to harm reduction but continue to profit from poisons like alcohol.
    • Any company that makes devices with proprietary interfaces e.g. WiFi printers, BT routers, Apple in general, Tesla, battery power tool manufacturers.
    • The list goes on…
    • PyroEnglish
      5•2 years ago

      Governments like the UK that insist prohition is a better alternative to harm reduction but continue to profit from poisons like alcohol.

      How does one boycott the government? Would I cut up my ID and declare myself a sovereign citizen? As much as I agree with the sentiment, I don’t think it’s as easy as that haha

    • LUHG
      1•2 years ago

      Let’s face it, EE are just as twatty as the others.

    • @[email protected]
      11•2 years ago
      • Oil refineries
      • concrete factories
      • mercenaries
      • energy producers that still don’t use renewables exclusively
      • private hospital corporations
      • cruises companies
      • unsustainable agrarian producers

      All of these are literally killing children. Not directly and immediately but according to the IPCC report we have 1,5 to 2 years time to get to ZERO emissions, else we got some tipping points and risk turning earth into a Venus-like planet.

  • deadcatbounce
    4•2 years ago
    1. Retail banks.

    Because money laundering regulations in the UK (and I believe in the US and Europe) at least have made free use of one’s cash pretty difficult:

    Designated accounts to transfer cash so that you have at least twice as many transactions to do as necessary. Inability to remove modest amounts of cash from your own account, or even pay it in.

    1. Corporate banks operating HFT and dark pools to significantly push up the cost of personal share dealing.

    2. Water companies dumping sewage into rivers and failing to fix leaks whilst raising water processing charges and bonuses to the board.

    3. BBC and their sponsor-a-paedo TV tax collected by harassing elderly people, guilty until proved innocent. Used to be wonderful, educational and funny. Now useless woke shit.

    4. Politics. Come back Guido, all is forgiven. Thieving Boris Johnson handing out multi million pound contracts to supply PPE to his local pub landlord (who have no fucking clue about that sector) and his bunch of duplicitous cronies.

    I might have got carried away towards the end. Sorry, not sorry.

  • DeadNinja
    26•2 years ago

    Sorry if this has already been mentioned in the 224 (so far) comments… but another bad guy worth hating is

    Hewlett Packard.

    Their

    “Hey, you need to have our proprietary ink cartrige in your HP inkjet printer plus scanner to print AND to scan as well. The scanner won’t work when you are out of ink”

    Is just plain fuckery.

        • @[email protected]English
          32•2 years ago

          A really shitty tech company.

          Oracle hires more lawyers than they do developers then they do things like “oh? You’re using this product in the cloud with the license you purchased? But you didn’t purchase the cloud license”

          They also buy technology and proceed to violate whatever license it has, like ZFS.

        • @[email protected]
          5•2 years ago

          Stands for One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison, not officially but I like to think it is. It’s a corporation built around a database engine.
          They have a well deserved terrible reputation based on their commercial practices, including but not exhaustive, shipping full fledged software with functionality locked behind paywalls, buying and demolishing established open source companies/projects, suing the shit out of their customers for license violation (see above), price gouging their customers who often have no other choice than to run their products.
          The engine itself is nice and reliable but the business practices of Oracle drives a lot of companies to settle for the competition, at least, those who can afford to leave.

  • @[email protected]English
    15•2 years ago

    All the major meat producers. And fast food chains.

    There’s been so much publicized in recent years about their treatment of animals, their lobbying efforts, how they treat their employees, how they’re ruining the environment, how they fix prices and force farmers to “get on board” or else. It’s really bad but we don’t care so much because it’s hidden beyond our periphery.

    I know no one wants to be told to reduce or complicate doing the things that bring you joy, but reducing your meat consumption and shopping at local producers is something we could all take small steps every year towards doing.

  • Harvey656
    7•2 years ago

    I literally do not boy have enough time in the day to type all of them. There’s just so many that are awful.

  • Kena
    7•2 years ago

    Putting aside that boycotting doesn’t work and actually has the opposite effect.

    Coca-cola

      • Kena
        3•2 years ago

        Name a single boycott that ever managed to take down an international corporation that didn’t end up making them more famous then they where before that. Being “boycotted” is even a marketing tool companies like nike have used before.

        Did you think this through or did you just want to be contrarian for no actual reason?

        • Shambling ShapesEnglish
          5•2 years ago

          The goal isn’t “taking down” a company. It’s to influence their behavior/policies.

          ChikFilA stopped donating to anti-gay charities when they were boycotted.

          • @[email protected]English
            4•2 years ago

            ChikFilA stopped donating to anti-gay charities when they were boycotted.

            I feel like now they’re going to say because rightwingers attempted to boycott after that change, that boycotts don’t work…

            Because they don’t understand rightwing extremists are bad at boycotting and statistically insignificant to a nationwide chain.

        • @[email protected]
          10•2 years ago

          I think what you’re getting at is that the publicity generated by flashy boycott activism only generates free advertising for the companies. Which it certainly can! But that’s also dependent on what is being boycotted and the social and political beliefs behind it. If one group boycotts a product because the company is homophobic, another group buys more of that product because they agree with the company. That sort of thing.

          But it isn’t as two dimensional as “boycotting has the opposite effect”. Here are some examples of effective boycotting. Though you did get me interested in how effective boycotting really is, but I couldn’t find any efficacy studies that weren’t behind a paywall…

      • @[email protected]
        12•2 years ago

        Giving a company money -> they reinvest that money -> company grows

        Not giving a company money -> ??? -> company grows

        Everybody knows that, duh!

        • Kena
          4•2 years ago

          We both know that you actually don’t think it’s that simple. You just wanted to be contrarian.

          I’m actually so correct in what I said that getting targeted with hate campaigns is something companies try to do. As I told another one of you NPCs before, Nike did that exact thing. They intentionally did something that upset a target demographic, those people burned nike products and tried to “boycott” them and it ended up making their sales go up because everyone was talking about them now.

          This is such a well known thing that I’m surprised you people got mad at me for saying it. Redditors will get mad at everything for no reason I guess.

          • @[email protected]English
            11•2 years ago

            They intentionally did something that upset a target demographic, those people burned nike products and tried to “boycott” them and it ended up making their sales go up because everyone was talking about them now.

            I bet if you were specific, it was something about supporting a progressive cause that most people support and rightwingers got mad and “protested” by buying Nike products to destroy…

            Just because rightwing extremists are the minority and don’t understand how boycotts work, doesn’t mean boycotts don’t work.

          • @[email protected]
            1•2 years ago

            Most redditors have been running from life for so long all they know is anger and pain, with the anger being the only anti-pain strategy they have.